BUY NOW — this is a great window.
We expect prices on this route to rise from here. Book within the next few days for the best value.
The next 12 months — by departure date
Each tile is a real day. Greener = cheaper. Click any day to set it as your departure.
No destination yet? Start with your budget.
Tell us what you can spend, and we'll surface places you can actually afford on those dates. Reverse-flight-search.
Set a budget. See the world.
Every pin is a real destination you can actually afford. Greener and bigger = better deal. Drag the budget slider to redraw the map instantly. Tap any pin to grade and book it.
Stop asking ChatGPT "is this a good flight price?"
AI assistants don't have live flight data — they guess from training data months old. FareGrade pulls real fares and grades them in 2 seconds. Use whichever you want; we'll be here when you need a real number.
- ✗ Vague price range, no real fare
- ✗ Training data is months out of date
- ✗ Different answer every time you ask
- ✗ Sends you to another tool to actually decide
- ✓ Real live fare from airline-data API
- ✓ Updated continuously, never stale
- ✓ Same grade every time for the same query
- ✓ One verdict, then you book — no second tool
Try a popular route.
One-click shortcuts to common searches. Tap any to grade it instantly.
Fare hacks the airlines don't advertise.
Battle-tested techniques used by points-and-miles power users. Some are clever, some are gray-area — we tell you which.
Tue / Wed flights, not Tue bookings
The "book on Tuesday" myth is dead. What still works: flying Tuesday or Wednesday. Across our dataset those days run 9–14% cheaper than Friday or Sunday departures.
Always works · No riskThe 21-day wall
Domestic fares jump sharply inside 21 days from departure as airlines drop their cheap fare buckets. If you can, book at least 3 weeks out — and ideally 4–5.
Always works · No riskHidden-city ticketing
Book a flight A→B with a layover in your real destination C, then "skip" the second leg. Saves serious money on hub-to-hub routes — but: carry-on only, no checked bag, never on a return leg, never with your frequent flier number.
Gray area · Use sparinglyPositioning flights
Flying domestic to a major hub (NYC, MIA, LAX) before your international leg can unlock fares hundreds of dollars cheaper than departing from a regional airport. Worth it on long-hauls; rarely on short-hauls.
Always works · No riskMistake / error fares
Real glitches happen. Subscribe to Going.com, Secret Flying, and r/Flights. Book inside 90 minutes — airlines usually honor mistake fares filed in their system longer than 24 hours.
Always works · No riskIncognito doesn't help (much)
Independent research has not found dynamic price-bumping based on your cookies. What does help: compare across at least 3 OTAs + the airline site on the same search. Prices vary because of inventory caching, not surveillance.
Myth-debunkedOne question. One answer. No agenda.
FareGrade exists for one question: should I book this flight today, or wait? Other tools either make you guess (Google Flights) or sell you something (Hopper makes money when you book through them — guess which way they nudge you). We do neither. We pull the live fare from a real airline-data API, grade it A+ to F against published booking-window research and 12 years of seasonality patterns, and send you to the airline to book. No bookings taken. No ads. No notifications you didn't ask for. Two seconds, one verdict, free forever.
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Built by Alain Castellanos Pineda
Product builder · travel-pricing nerd · HTX→everywhere
FareGrade exists because flight pricing should not be a mystery. The whole engine — booking-window research, seasonality model, route grading — was assembled to give regular travelers the same data points the points-and-miles community quietly uses.